Monday 05 April 2004 6:57:47 am

I have been struggling with this idea for close to a year now, and sadly I don't have a very good solution. I tried using a modified Matrix datatype, but that is problematic as I cannot change the name of a spec site-wide, nor can I easily change the order of the specs. After various other tests, I have fallen back on standard Text Lines, which isn't a good solution either, as each product can include 15 specs, thus increasing initial content creation, storage space and display time.

I would love to see a solution to the issue.

Alex

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Wednesday 07 April 2004 2:36:07 am

I think that I would have made a new datatype for this where you define the fields to compare at class level and just fill in the values when you edit the object. When you have this as a separate datatype you could design it so it will be simple to compare different products with different values.

I would not serialize this into xml when storing since it will then be hard to do comparison.

I think a new datatype which is designed for this is the best way. I don't see any existing datatypes really fit into this.

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